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STUDENT VOICES: Kids bring into school what they’re dealing with at home. Teachers don’t get that

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Amid bans on teaching Black history and calculated attempts at falsifying history, we all need a recalibration in the importance of telling full stories about America’s past and present. Oral history has preserved Black history, and sharing these stories across generations will preserve truths and offer a blueprint for the future.

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STUDENT VOICES: Teachers put you in situations to make you stronger

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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Teaching to the student, not the test

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Also, Massachusetts public schools have been relatively slow to adopt student-centered learning, perhaps in part because traditional teaching approaches seem to work so well here—last year the state’s averages topped the National As sessment of Educational Progress test scores in reading and math.

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STUDENT VOICES: The education system encourages students to be dead inside

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? . Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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STUDENT VOICES: “Challenging” views are considered insubordination

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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STUDENT VOICES: If I weren’t here I’d probably be dead

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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STUDENT VOICES: I don’t want to die in the same town I grew up in

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

Oral History

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STUDENT VOICES: I never knew I’d get this far

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

Oral History

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STUDENT VOICES: When you’re a teenager you feel like an outsider already

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

William Hite , superintendent of Philadelphia’s public schools. Young people are glad to be back in school. The county encompassing the Fayetteville Public Schools — in Northwest Arkansas near the Ozark Mountains — has logged the third highest number of deaths to Covid in the state. That’s number one.

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Here are some voices from our third round of interviews, in which we asked people involved with their local public schools for their reflections on how the past year had shaped them, and their predictions for the next school year, among other topics. school district is investing heavily in early literacy.

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Plunging NAEP scores make clear the long and difficult road ahead to pandemic recovery

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Educators have also cited school violence and staffing shortages.And some parents of children with special needs are suing school systems for failing to provide services to their children when schools were closed. Related: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling. We will be watching closely.

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STUDENT VOICES: Pay teachers more

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. It’s the same with how I think the public school system really fails with standardized testing.

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“We’re really underwater here:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country who are involved in their local public schools in one way or another. William Hite , superintendent of Philadelphia’s public schools. Steven Weber, associate superintendent for teaching and learning for the Fayetteville Public Schools.

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STUDENT VOICES: I don’t think you need an A+ in calculus to work a normal job

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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STUDENT VOICES: Kids bring into school what they’re dealing with at home. Teachers don’t get that

Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

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STUDENT VOICES: Teachers put you in situations to make you stronger

Teaching to the student, not the test

STUDENT VOICES: The education system encourages students to be dead inside

STUDENT VOICES: “Challenging” views are considered insubordination

STUDENT VOICES: If I weren’t here I’d probably be dead

STUDENT VOICES: I don’t want to die in the same town I grew up in

STUDENT VOICES: I never knew I’d get this far

STUDENT VOICES: When you’re a teenager you feel like an outsider already

“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

Plunging NAEP scores make clear the long and difficult road ahead to pandemic recovery

STUDENT VOICES: Pay teachers more

“We’re really underwater here:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

STUDENT VOICES: I don’t think you need an A+ in calculus to work a normal job

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